About Karen White, narrator

Karen White is a classically trained actress who has been recording audio books since 1999 and has well over 150 books to her credit and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Honored to be included in Audiofile’s Best Voices 2010 and 2011, she’s also an Audie Finalist and Best Audiobook of the Year winner for 2009, 2010 and 2011 (The Hemingses of Monticelloby Annette Gordon Reed, Too Good to be True by Erin Arvedlund, and Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor) and she has earned multiple Audiofile Earphones Awards, recently for and You Had Me at Woof by Julie Klam and Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz. Publishers Weekly says of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, “Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience.” Speaking of Audiobooks says of her, “Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators – if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try.”

Thank you, Emma! That was an easy book for me to record – the author’s voice is so clearly written that I was able to slip right into it. You might want to check out FARM CITY by Novella Carpenter; it’s in the same vein.

[…] narrators and a few other bloggers. It was one of the highlights of my BEA experience. I met Karen White, Robert Fass, Anne Flosnik, Patrick Lawler, Amy Rubinate, Simon Vance, Xe Sands, and Lauren […]

Karen, thank you so much for your beautiful reading of my latest book MARMEE & LOUISA: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother.
You made the story come alive, even for its author! I hope we’ll work together again —
Eve LaPlante

It might be old to you, but I just listened to “Nothing to Envy”. I have read or been privy to many articles & books about North Korea, since I live and work in South Korea, for the U.S. Govt, and i throughly enjoy’ed your reading and it brought the reason so much to light of why the Koreans and US are trying to do here — It’s for the North Korean people in the end — they need all our help — Great job and thank you

Thanks so much for your comment, Jay. Though I recorded NOTHING TO ENVY several years ago, it has stayed with me. I felt so ignorant about the plight of regular people living in North Korea when reading this book. Barbara Demick is a wonderful writer, who continues to report from various locations in Asia for the Los Angeles Times, and I continue to look for her articles in the paper, as I know they will combine the facts with the POVs of the citizens she’s reporting about.

Karen
I visited your website today and looked through all of my audio title to see if you were the narrator in any of them. Unfortunately, I did not find you. :-( That kind of surprised me when I read that you have been doing audio books for longer than I have been listening to them. But, I look forward to hearing you in the future. :-)

[…] class led by Robin Miles. It was wonderful to get the opportunity and I’m very grateful to Karen White for selecting me, and to my angels, who got my hand up in the air when they asked for volunteers. I […]

Great website Karen! How have I known you so long without realizing all your accomplishments?! No wonder you did such a fantastic job on our school video narration.
My mom is a huge fan of audiobooks and I see you do a lot of the types of books she enjoys — now I know what to get her for Christmas! ;-)